Going nowhere fast: After the success of the Standard Model, experiments have stopped answering to

[Free Vulcan]

In recent years, physicists have been watching the data coming in from the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) with a growing sense of unease. We’ve spent decades devising elaborate accounts for the behaviour of the quantum zoo of subatomic particles, the most basic building blocks of the known universe. The Standard Model is the high-water mark of our achievements to date, with some of its theoretical predictions verified to within a one-in-ten-billion chance of error – a simply astounding degree of accuracy. But it leaves many questions unanswered. For one, where does gravity come from? Why do matter particles always possess three, ever-heavier copies, with peculiar patterns in their masses? What is dark matter, and why does the universe contain more matter than antimatter?

https://aeon.co/essays/has-the-quest-for-top-down-unification-of-physics-stalled

[Oceander]

Unanswered questions?  Why, then, it’s not a real theory, it’s “just a theory”.

[Joe Wooten]

Unanswered questions?  Why, then, it’s not a real theory, it’s “just a theory”.

Oh, it's a real theory, but holes are starting to be very obvious, just like the "standard model" theories back at the turn of the 20th century. answers will be found to these questions eventually if the politicization of physics gets stopped and allows awkward questions be asked and a researcher is allowed to run experiments that might be adverse to the narrative.

What do you want to bet the person(s) who does answer those awkward questions successfully will probably be a middle age white or eastern Asian male?